Today is the last class before Christmas. Time to review the year and to start planning new courses for January. Meanwhile, some lightheartedness for my students and colleagues – the Ashby Alexander Technique Christmas Quiz, as requested by my advanced…
Yearly Archives: 2017
Stairs, Fatigue and The Monster
Going up and down stairs is difficult for a lot of people. I see it in Alexander Technique lessons. I also see people make it even harder for themselves. A recent lesson turned up a beautiful example. This student has…
Alexander Technique Myths #4: If I don’t know what I’m doing, I can’t stop it.
It’s time for another Alexander Technique myth (I have a collection*). A hotly debated myth, it goes like this:- “I can’t stop it if I don’t know what I’m doing.” It also appears as “I have to know what I’m…
How to Learn the Alexander Technique? Contrast and Hone.
My blog today has a culinary theme, or at least a culinary metaphor. It should be pretty clear from my other blogs that the Alexander Technique is all about learning. But people tend to have very rigid ideas about what…
Tagged with: hone, ingredients, olive oil, sniff
Posted in Alexander thinking, everyday life, improvement, learning
Posted in Alexander thinking, everyday life, improvement, learning
What Sort of Alexander Technique Student Are You?
I want to tell you a story about The Sheepish Student and The Industrious Student. Once upon a time there were two students. The first student came to her lesson every week, and when the teacher asked her how she…
Tagged with: change, fast, sheepish, slowly
Posted in Alexander thinking, change, everyday life, progress
Posted in Alexander thinking, change, everyday life, progress
Even More Alexander Technique Freebies
Last time I talked about the voucher system of Alexander freebies, and collecting odd moments to practice. Today, some more freebies. Our starting question is ‘What do you learn from?’ Not “what do people in general learn from?” but “What do you…
Alexander Technique Freebies
Let’s face it, Alexander Technique lessons are a high quality product, and they don’t come cheap. So wouldn’t it be nice if there were a few freebies thrown in as well? Students often bring this up, indirectly. “How many lessons…
The Alexander Technique and DIY
This is a wall. And these are shelves. No, this hasn’t mysteriously changed into a DIY blog. Just bear with me a little while, and…
How Not To Overload The Alexander Technique
Last time I talked about the concept of overloading; Alexander ideas are resilient, but sometimes the student is not. Taking on a challenging new idea and immediately trying to use it with a large, difficult and stubborn problem is likely…
Tagged with: build up, gradual, overload, priorities, recipe
Posted in activity, improvement, progress, tips
Posted in activity, improvement, progress, tips
How to Overload the Alexander Technique
Do you know that feeling when you have a really important idea that you can not capture in anything shorter than a complete essay. Then you read, quite by accident, something by someone else that sums it up beautifully? My…
Hi, I'm Karen. I teach the Alexander Technique in the Midlands, UK. I blog once a week on a small bite of the AT.
Q: How do you eat an elephant?
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